It’s obvious that the bigger the event, the bigger the names of the players who participate, but for two local players, this has been taken to an extreme. Brian Morgan and Yannick Labattaglia are both talented local players with both experience and skill behind them, but their table-mates for most of the day have been a who’s who of tournament poker in the past few years.
In seat 1 is Ema Zajmovic, a WPT Champion and previous final tablist in the last two such events here at Playground Poker Club. Then in seat 4 is Niall Farrell, an EPT Champion, and next to him is Brian Altman, a WSOP-C Main Event Champion and former WPT final tableist. And then the table gets even harder. To Brian’s left is Samuel Panzica, who has won 2 WPT championships in the past year, and none other than Vojtek Rusicka, November Niner and the most recent partypoker LIVE Millions High Roller Champion! And that’s not to ignore Ian O’Hara and Peter Jetten, both extremely accomplished tournament players with years of published results. If that’s not enough, before we were there, Christian Harder was also seated there. Not a spot among them!
